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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
apart
    adv 1: separated or at a distance in place or position or time;
           "These towns are many miles apart"; "stood with his legs
           apart"; "born two years apart"
    2: not taken into account or excluded from consideration; "these
       problems apart, the country is doing well"; "all joking
       aside, I think you're crazy" [syn: apart, aside]
    3: away from another or others; "they grew apart over the
       years"; "kept apart from the group out of shyness"; "decided
       to live apart"
    4: placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose; "had a
       feeling of being set apart"; "quality sets it apart"; "a day
       set aside for relaxing" [syn: aside, apart]
    5: one from the other; "people can't tell the twins apart"
    6: into parts or pieces; "he took his father's watch apart";
       "split apart"; "torn asunder" [syn: apart, asunder]
    adj 1: remote and separate physically or socially; "existed over
           the centuries as a world apart"; "preserved because they
           inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson; "tiny isolated
           villages remote from centers of civilization"; "an
           obscure village" [syn: apart(p), isolated, obscure]
    2: having characteristics not shared by others; "scientists felt
       they were a group apart"- Vannever Bush

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Apart \A*part"\, adv. [F. [`a] part; (L. ad) + part part. See
   Part.]
   1. Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of
      separation as to place; aside.
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            Others apart sat on a hill retired.   --Milton.
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            The Lord hath set apart him that is godly for
            himself.                              --Ps. iv. 3.
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   2. In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction,
      as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of
      thought; separately; independently; as, consider the two
      propositions apart.
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   3. Aside; away. "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and
      superfluity of naughtiness." --Jas. i. 21.
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            Let Pleasure go, put Care apart.      --Keble.
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   4. In two or more parts; asunder; to piece; as, to take a
      piece of machinery apart.
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Thesaurus Results for apart:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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